…because… really…. who cares that my Christmas card order came in late, or that my red holiday envelopes look PINK or that I just ruined one of my cards by writing “Happy Easter!” (WTF?!) and now have to select one relative that is going to get a generic store-bought card… or that my beloved husband [...]
Category Archive for 'holidays'
Operation Hallmark Christmas – Day Fucking One
Posted in holidays on Dec 8th, 2009
We just had our annual holiday fight… and that, my friends, marks the official kickoff of the Holiday Season! The beginning of the madness, agony, vomit, anguish, last-minute shopping, wrapping, more fighting and dropping off our Christmas cards at FEDEX Overnight… Last year we didn’t buy a single decoration. Not one. Neither one of us [...]
La-la-land
Posted in holidays on Nov 27th, 2009
This morning Leila woke up, looked in her closet and was all “OMG! I’m fat and have nothing to wear!”… oh wait… that was me. For someone who doesn’t cook much I surely like to eat. And I was not going to miss a good Thanksgiving dinner even if I had to drive an hour [...]
The holiday season is officially here!
Posted in holidays on Nov 4th, 2009
Let the drinking commence. Drinking is probably the only holiday tradition that my parents passed on to me. The stress levels were high and the alcohol consumption grew exponentially with each day. To avoid the fury of the cleaning and his children, my father always picked up extra hours at work and I did my [...]
